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Pasting Multiple Lines in Mozilla FireFox

Written by Hokkien Pirates Galactic Emperor
Wednesday, 04 July 2007
In case if you are not using Mozilla Firefox yet, it's a great replacement for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Download it here. If you've ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line text into Firefox just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a time—meaning that you have to copy and paste each line individually—there's a simple Firefox tweak that will solve this problem: Type "about:config" in the location bar. In the "Filter" field type "singleline." You can set the value to 2 for editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines, which will allow pasting of multiple lines to input boxes. This is a sample of Limpek's Firefox configuration. Of course, this tweak works for any input box in web pages as well. So if you've bumped up against the multi-line paste problem elsewhere, consider it a problem of the past.

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